Teachers' Notes
The Word on sex, life and relationships is an information resource on sex and sexuality for young people, especially of secondary school age. It has been designed to support sexuality education both in the home and in school programmes.
It is also for those young people who do not have access to an effective school programme or who are not able to talk to supportive adults about sexuality.
As with all aspects of the Health and Physical Education curriculum each school will need to determine how The Word best fits into their health programme. The booklet and Web site could form the basis of a unit of work on sexuality or could be used as an adjunct to an existing programme. The booklet could be used as a class set during a lesson or given out to students at the end of a programme.
There are many resources containing classroom activities that are suitable for use with The Word. The following suggestions are to give teachers some ideas for activities from FPA resources that link with topic areas in The Word. All the resources mentioned are available from the FPA Online Shop.
The Online Bookshop also has a full list of Teaching Resources.
Topics covered in The Word:
Each topic is listed below with suggested activities from FPA Resources. Each has a link to the appropriate page in The Word.
Challenges and Change
This twelve lesson programme draws on the considerable experience of the authors in teaching sexuality education in New Zealand schools. It offers a step by step approach to topics such as decision making, contraception and sexually transmitted disease. It has been published by Family Planning in response to the many requests from teachers for a sequential programme.
Suggested Activities:
Level 1 Session 2 `Feelings about Our Bodies' page 5
Level 1 Session 4 `Friendships and Relationships' page 13
Level 2 Session 4 `Relationships' page 56 [ back to top ]
Affirming Diversity
This resource aims to give sexuality educators a basic awareness of lesbian, gay and bisexual issues. It contains learning activities for use with groups and includes resource material which can be used as a stand alone unit or in conjunction with existing resources.
Suggested Activity:
Activities 1-6 pages 24-30 [ back to top ]
Challenges and Change
This twelve lesson programme draws on the considerable experience of the authors in teaching sexuality education in New Zealand schools. It offers a step by step approach to topics such as decision making, contraception and sexually transmitted disease. It has been published by Family Planning in response to the many requests from teachers for a sequential programme.
Suggested Activities:
Level 1 `Friendships and Relationships cont.' page 19
Level 2 Decision-making and Sexual Readiness' page 61
Contraception Your Choice Teaching Kit
This kit is going through a redesign process to ensure the information and material is up to date. Please bear with us. The kit will be advertised on this site as soon as it is available. [ back to top ]
STI Kit - A Resource for Educators
This kit is going through a redesign process to ensure the information and material is up to date. Please bear with us. The kit will be advertised on this site as soon as it is available.
Challenges and Change
This twelve lesson programme draws on the considerable experience of the authors in teaching sexuality education in New Zealand schools. It offers a step by step approach to topics such as decision making, contraception and sexually transmitted disease. It has been published by Family Planning in response to the many requests from teachers for a sequential programme.
Suggested Activities:
Level 1 Session 8 & 9 `Introduction to Contraception' pages 33-36
Level 2 Session 8 `Reviewing Contraception' page 72
Contraception Your Choice Teaching Kit
This kit is going through a redesign process to ensure the information and material is up to date. Please bear with us. The kit will be advertised on this site as soon as it is available. [ back to top ]
Challenges and Change
This twelve lesson programme draws on the considerable experience of the authors in teaching sexuality education in New Zealand schools. It offers a step by step approach to topics such as decision making, contraception and sexually transmitted disease. It has been published by Family Planning in response to the many requests from teachers for a sequential programme.
Suggested Activities:
Level 1 Session 10 `Sexually Transmitted Diseases' page 38
Level 2 Session 9 `Sexually Transmitted Diseases' page 76
Level 2 Session 10 `HIV/AIDS and Negotiating Condom Use' page 85
STD Kit - A Resource for Educators
This kit is going through a redesign process to ensure the information and material is up to date. Please bear with us. The kit will be advertised on this site as soon as it is available. [ back to top ]
Challenges and Change
This twelve lesson programme draws on the considerable experience of the authors in teaching sexuality education in New Zealand schools. It offers a step by step approach to topics such as decision making, contraception and sexually transmitted disease. It has been published by Family Planning in response to the many requests from teachers for a sequential programme.
Suggested Activities:
Level 1 Session 7 `Sexual Abuse' page 27
Level 2 Session 6 `Sexual pressure and Date Rape' page 63
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